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Updated: May 11, 2025
If he is a deity of a rather lofty moral conception, of course he need not be propitiated by human sacrifices or cold chickens. This is a nunuai with which I am familiar. Flying fish, in Banks Island, take the rôle of salmon. See Mr. 'The belief in the power of charms for good or evil produces not only honesty, but a great amount of gentle dealing, says Livingstone, of the Africans.
The common ghost is a bag of nunuai, as living man, in the opinion of some philosophers, is a bag of 'sensations. Ghosts are only seen as spiritual lights, which so commonly attend hallucinations among the civilised. This is rather the reverse of what we should expect, in accordance with the anthropological theory.
Codrington cannot determine the connection of this belief with that in spirits. Mana is the uncanny, is X, the unknown. A revived impression of sense is nunuai, as when a tired fisher, half asleep at night, feels the 'draw' of a salmon, and automatically strikes.
To myself it rather looks as if all impressions had their nunuai, real, bodiless, persistent, after-images; that the soul is the complex of all of these nunuai; that there is in the universe a kind of magical other, called mana, possessed, in different proportions, by different men, Vui, tamate, and material objects, and that the atai or ataro of a man dead, his ghost, retains its old, and acquires new mana.
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